Misuse of wchar_t? Care to elaborate? My only complaint with wchar_t is that is barely used at all. From what I've seen, programs that use wchar_t are shorter, more readable, and more secure.
How does this relate to the Open Invention Network? They are supposed to hold a large number of very high profile patents, and go after any company that tries to use patents to go after users of various high profile open source components, including the Linux kernel. (See http://lwn.net/Articles/178673/ for more information)
His statements are an amazing mix of half-truths, selective reinterpretations and marketing drivel. I don't think he says anything that is a flat out lie, but every single word is on the edge. Congratulations to Microsoft for hiring the best spin doctor in the industry?
The OLPC will be sold with no (or very little) profix, and will cost ~$150 if bought in loads of a few thousand. Sold over counter, the OLPC price would be comparable to the Maemo.
That said, the dual mode screen and the added keyboard of the OLPC might still make it a very interesting competitor.
RPM is the package format required by the LSB. That alone makes it pretty vital for RPM not to die, at least as long as LSB isn't changed.
RPM is used by RedHat, Suse/Novell, Mandriva and Centos, some of the most popular distributions. It's not really known how large a marketshare the popular distros have, but I think it's fair to say that RPM is roughly comparably in popularity to dpkg.
Actually, I hear lots and lots of people slamming C/C++ because it forces the programmer to do explicit memory managment, something humas are bad at, which leads to bugs and security issues. These people invariably advocate the use of more high level languages that automate and simplify common tasks, such as Java, Python or... PHP.
The blame for the PHP security mess should be shared between the language design, which makes it a hassle to write secure code, and the language popularity, which means that PHP is the language choice of 50 million incompetent programmer wannabes.
Bull. Inheritance tax is not only a double taxation, it is also taxation on the misry of others. My girlfriends mother died a few years ago, and her family nearly had to sell their house because her father inherited the house, incurring a huge inheritance tax. If you think robbing the people who have just lost someone is fair, you are out of your mind.
Also, the statement that it puts more money into the economy is bogus. It barely brings in any money at all.
I disagree. If your ISP would suddenly decide that you don't deserve a decent ping time for playing WoW, you switch ISP. Kind of like if your grocer start selling only canned food, you buy your food elsewhere. The only real problem with internet connectivity is that there are some area where there are far to few ISPs, so you don't have anything to switch to. Fix that problem instead of papering over it with useless laws.
I agree. Though I've never understood why a country should deserve loyalty either. A person sure. An ideal, yes.
But pinning loyalty to a specific country instead of to the ideals that country claims to uphold only means that when the country ends up in the hands of people who are less idealistic, your loyalty will be abused.
The 360 always renders all games in 720p internally. The 480i signal is simply a downsampled version, and the 1080p version is upsampled. There is no difference in framrate between different resolutions. On the other hand, since the source material is always 720p, upscaling it to 1080p won't buy you anything, unless you happen to have one of those LCD tvs with a really bad upscaler.
Yes, Windows and Unix work differently. I was trying to point out one of the reasons why the Windows filesystem model is inferior to the one used by Unix. The only workaround to enable upgrading a library while it is in use that I know of is to install it with a different filename or path, which is a solution with a large number of other issues.
Last time I upgraded Firefox on Windows (which, admitedly was a long time ago) you had to close Firefox and any program using it before starting the upgrade. But no matter what FF does, the upgrade method I described in my previous post _doesn't_ work under Windows. Removing a file that is opened by some other program _will_ fail under Windows. You need to either shut down all programs using a library, or install the new library to a different location. I don't know which one of these methods FF uses, and it doesn't matter. Neither method would be workable for a library which is used by every non-trivial application on the system.
A perfect example of why the filesystem model in Windows is broken.
The kind of issue you describe is solved automatically by the filesystem on Unix systems. If one process deletes a file that is opened by any process, then that file will be unlinked from the filesystem, but remain useable to the process that was already using the file. The file is not actually deleted from disk until all processes stop using it.
Among many other things, this means that you can safely upgrade a library, or even a program, that is running. The old processes will keep running the old library with no issues but any new processes that are created will automatically use the new one. Once all old processes die, the space used by the old library is returned to the filesystem.
There are gotchas with the 'Unix way', like correctly handling configuration files that are only open on startup and shutdown, but these issues can be handled with a bit of care.
Under Linux, people routinely upgrade Firefox or even the X windowing system while the programs themselves are still running. Afterwards, they simply restart the program in question to run the new version.
Check the history of the Wikipedia article. The section mentioning Wilson suffering from Polio was there, and then removed shortly thereafter. If either one of you had could stop assuming the worst about the other and do a bit more research, you'd see that it is perfectly plausible that both your stories are true.
Or you could just accuse each other of editing Wikipedia to suit your arguments, whatever.
Not true at all. There is actually a very complex backstory to DOA, it's just that the fihhting games never really touch upon the backstory. If you want to know why all those people are hitting each other, you could do worse than try playing the Ninja Gaiden games.
Nope. If you take a small number of samples from a very large and diverse population, the odds are actually very high that several of the very uncommon results (e.g. planet types) will be highly overrepresented. It's a variation on "there are so many extremely unlikely things which can happen that it's extremely likely that a few of them will happen."
I love astronomy. In what other science does discovering two instances of the same thing make something potentially 'common'?
Reminds me of an old joke. An astronomer, a physisist and a mathematician are traveling on a train through Scotland. Through the window of the train they notice a black sheep.
"Aha," shouts the astronomer. "In Scotland, all sheep are black."
"Nonono, " says the physist. "We only know that there are black sheep in Scotland, not that all scottish sheep are black."
The matematician looks furiously at the other two and almost screams "In Scotland there is at least one sheep with at least on black side!"
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Sure, there are lots of valid reasons for not buying a HDTV. Lack of interest, lack of money, etc.. The OP and a lot of other people claim that they are too expensive. I'm just saying that a HDTV today costs no more than an average TV used to cost five or ten years ago.
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Misuse of wchar_t? Care to elaborate? My only complaint with wchar_t is that is barely used at all. From what I've seen, programs that use wchar_t are shorter, more readable, and more secure.
How does this relate to the Open Invention Network? They are supposed to hold a large number of very high profile patents, and go after any company that tries to use patents to go after users of various high profile open source components, including the Linux kernel. (See http://lwn.net/Articles/178673/ for more information)
His statements are an amazing mix of half-truths, selective reinterpretations and marketing drivel. I don't think he says anything that is a flat out lie, but every single word is on the edge. Congratulations to Microsoft for hiring the best spin doctor in the industry?
Two words: Joe jobs.
Ok, so 1 million units shipped, but you saw 15 boxes in the corner. 999 985 units sold.
The OLPC will be sold with no (or very little) profix, and will cost ~$150 if bought in loads of a few thousand. Sold over counter, the OLPC price would be comparable to the Maemo.
That said, the dual mode screen and the added keyboard of the OLPC might still make it a very interesting competitor.
RPM is the package format required by the LSB. That alone makes it pretty vital for RPM not to die, at least as long as LSB isn't changed.
RPM is used by RedHat, Suse/Novell, Mandriva and Centos, some of the most popular distributions. It's not really known how large a marketshare the popular distros have, but I think it's fair to say that RPM is roughly comparably in popularity to dpkg.
No, that would be Revolutions Per Minute.
Actually, I hear lots and lots of people slamming C/C++ because it forces the programmer to do explicit memory managment, something humas are bad at, which leads to bugs and security issues. These people invariably advocate the use of more high level languages that automate and simplify common tasks, such as Java, Python or... PHP.
The blame for the PHP security mess should be shared between the language design, which makes it a hassle to write secure code, and the language popularity, which means that PHP is the language choice of 50 million incompetent programmer wannabes.
Bull. Inheritance tax is not only a double taxation, it is also taxation on the misry of others. My girlfriends mother died a few years ago, and her family nearly had to sell their house because her father inherited the house, incurring a huge inheritance tax. If you think robbing the people who have just lost someone is fair, you are out of your mind.
Also, the statement that it puts more money into the economy is bogus. It barely brings in any money at all.
I disagree. If your ISP would suddenly decide that you don't deserve a decent ping time for playing WoW, you switch ISP. Kind of like if your grocer start selling only canned food, you buy your food elsewhere. The only real problem with internet connectivity is that there are some area where there are far to few ISPs, so you don't have anything to switch to. Fix that problem instead of papering over it with useless laws.
I agree. Though I've never understood why a country should deserve loyalty either. A person sure. An ideal, yes.
But pinning loyalty to a specific country instead of to the ideals that country claims to uphold only means that when the country ends up in the hands of people who are less idealistic, your loyalty will be abused.
The 360 always renders all games in 720p internally. The 480i signal is simply a downsampled version, and the 1080p version is upsampled. There is no difference in framrate between different resolutions. On the other hand, since the source material is always 720p, upscaling it to 1080p won't buy you anything, unless you happen to have one of those LCD tvs with a really bad upscaler.
Yes, Windows and Unix work differently. I was trying to point out one of the reasons why the Windows filesystem model is inferior to the one used by Unix. The only workaround to enable upgrading a library while it is in use that I know of is to install it with a different filename or path, which is a solution with a large number of other issues.
No need to be offensive.
Last time I upgraded Firefox on Windows (which, admitedly was a long time ago) you had to close Firefox and any program using it before starting the upgrade. But no matter what FF does, the upgrade method I described in my previous post _doesn't_ work under Windows. Removing a file that is opened by some other program _will_ fail under Windows. You need to either shut down all programs using a library, or install the new library to a different location. I don't know which one of these methods FF uses, and it doesn't matter. Neither method would be workable for a library which is used by every non-trivial application on the system.
A perfect example of why the filesystem model in Windows is broken.
The kind of issue you describe is solved automatically by the filesystem on Unix systems. If one process deletes a file that is opened by any process, then that file will be unlinked from the filesystem, but remain useable to the process that was already using the file. The file is not actually deleted from disk until all processes stop using it.
Among many other things, this means that you can safely upgrade a library, or even a program, that is running. The old processes will keep running the old library with no issues but any new processes that are created will automatically use the new one. Once all old processes die, the space used by the old library is returned to the filesystem.
There are gotchas with the 'Unix way', like correctly handling configuration files that are only open on startup and shutdown, but these issues can be handled with a bit of care.
Under Linux, people routinely upgrade Firefox or even the X windowing system while the programs themselves are still running. Afterwards, they simply restart the program in question to run the new version.
Exactly. The original question is stupid. An ASIC can be orders of magnitude faster for an fft, but you can't write a word processor for it.
Yep, they are trying to SCOop up what's left of their investors capital before they go bankrupt.
I had this issue until yesterday. Today, I've been able to send mail from my Gmail account to an sf list just fine.
Check the history of the Wikipedia article. The section mentioning Wilson suffering from Polio was there, and then removed shortly thereafter. If either one of you had could stop assuming the worst about the other and do a bit more research, you'd see that it is perfectly plausible that both your stories are true.
Or you could just accuse each other of editing Wikipedia to suit your arguments, whatever.
Not true at all. There is actually a very complex backstory to DOA, it's just that the fihhting games never really touch upon the backstory. If you want to know why all those people are hitting each other, you could do worse than try playing the Ninja Gaiden games.
Nope. If you take a small number of samples from a very large and diverse population, the odds are actually very high that several of the very uncommon results (e.g. planet types) will be highly overrepresented. It's a variation on "there are so many extremely unlikely things which can happen that it's extremely likely that a few of them will happen."
I love astronomy. In what other science does discovering two instances of the same thing make something potentially 'common'?
Reminds me of an old joke. An astronomer, a physisist and a mathematician are traveling on a train through Scotland. Through the window of the train they notice a black sheep.
"Aha," shouts the astronomer. "In Scotland, all sheep are black."
"Nonono, " says the physist. "We only know that there are black sheep in Scotland, not that all scottish sheep are black."
The matematician looks furiously at the other two and almost screams "In Scotland there is at least one sheep with at least on black side!"
Sure, there are lots of valid reasons for not buying a HDTV. Lack of interest, lack of money, etc.. The OP and a lot of other people claim that they are too expensive. I'm just saying that a HDTV today costs no more than an average TV used to cost five or ten years ago.